libpng transition?

[Jack Howarth]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 06:45:20PM -0500, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:43 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > 
> >> So then one of thee things happened:
> >> 
> >> - There is some bug in port where pymol was rebuilt before libpng
> >> - pymol didn't have a dependency on libpng listed (which would be a bug in the pymol port)
> >> - pymol wasn't rev-bumped (or was rev-bumped after your selfupdate happened, and you unfortunately got the libpng bump but not the pymol bump)
> > 
> > http://trac.macports.org/changeset/75159
> > 
> > says it isn't either of the last two possibilities. Without even simple logging of port's
> > activity ala yum.log, it is impossible to rule out the first possibility one way or the other.
> 
> you update from the subversion repo?

  I have a standard install with appears to use rsync. According to http://www.macports.org/install.php#svn
the svn option is oriented towards developers. So what you are telling me is that the dependency
mechanism of port is fragile for the typical MacPorts user.
            Jack

> 
> Do you know if the rsync repo does an atomic update of all the portfiles (ie, you know that you are gaurenteed to not have had an updated libpng port but not an update pymol port?)
> 
> logging isn't the only way to debug problems.
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